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2nd Amendment Under Fire
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3/2/2010 11:34:00 AM
Can you imagine if the state of Mississippi passed a law that said "Catholics may not own property."?
Well, ok, it is Mississippi - perhaps we can imagine it.
But you get my point.
Everybody - across political lines - would indignantly declare the screamingly obvious and entirely correct objection: No state may ever deny an American citizen a constitutional right.
Right.
Unless, of course, we're talking about the bastard amendment, the second amendment, which codifies the already-existing God-given natural right to own firearms.
Then some Americans cough, look sideways, and change the subject.
In Chicago, an elderly retired man who is, for fear of violence, afraid to walk the streets of his neighborhood; his apartment broken into and his modest belongings stolen three times this year.
And so this man wishes a gun to protect himself (though the reason ought not matter).
But he lives in Chicago, a place politicians have decided one of the Bill of Rights does not pertain, does not exist, for this man or anybody else.
Today the Supreme Court of the United States hears arguments bearing on a simple but utterly vital question: can Chicago - or any city, any state - nullify an individual American Constitutional Liberty...even if it is That Icky Right, the right to own a gun?
God help us that we are even asking this.
God help us if we don't get it right.
- JS
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Jay Severin
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